Agni (missile)
The Agni missile is a family of medium to intercontinental range ballistic missiles developed by India, named after one of the five elements of nature. Agni missiles are long-range,... Wikipedia
- Type: Medium-range ballistic missile (Agni-I, Agni-II, Agni Prime), Intermediate-range ballistic missile (Agni-III, Agni-IV), Intercontinental ballistic missile (Agni-V, Agni VI)
- Place of origin: India
- In service: Active
- Used by: India
- Designer: Defence Research and Development Organisation
- Manufacturer: Bharat Dynamics Limited
- Weight: 12,000 kg (Agni-I), 16,000 kg (Agni-II), 48,000 kg (Agni III), 17,000 kg (Agni-IV), 49,000 kg (Agni-V), 55,000 kg (Agni VI), 11,000 kg (Agni P)
- Length: 15 m (Agni-I), 21 m (Agni-II), 17 m (Agni-III), 20 m (Agni-IV), 17.5 m (Agni-V), 10.5 m(Agni-P)
- Diameter: 1.0 m (Agni-I, Agni-II), 2.0 m (Agni-III, Agni-IV, Agni V), 1.1 m (Agni VI), 1.15 m (Agni P)
- Warhead: Conventional high explosive-unitary, penetration, cluster munitions, incendiary weapon, thermobaric, strategic nuclear weapon
- Engine: Composite rocket motor
- Propellant: Solid fuel
- Operational, range: 700–1,200 km (Agni-I), 1,000–2,000 km (Agni Prime), 2,000–3,500 km (Agni-II), 3,000–5,000 km (Agni-III), 3,500–4,000 km (Agni-IV), 7,000–8,000 km (Agni-V), 11,000–12,000 km (Agni VI)
- Flight altitude: 300 km (Agni-I), 230 km (Agni-II), 350 km (Agni-III)
- Speed: 24 Mach (Agni-V)
- Guidance, system: Mid-course: Ring laser gyro inertial navigation system with GPS/NavIC satellite guidance, Terminal: Imaging infrared homing, radar scene correlation, active radar homing
- Launch, platform: Road/Rail mobile
- Data source: DuckDuckGo